European Property Investment Update 2025

Csanád Csürös

CEO, Property Forum

Csanád is the CEO of Property Forum with more than 15 years’ experience in the industry. Property Forum is a leading event hub of the CEE real estate industry with conferences, business breakfasts and workshops in London, Vienna, Warsaw, Bucharest, Budapest, Belgrade, Bratislava and Prague. Csanád strongly believes the ...   principles that made his conferences successful: the format, the quality of content, the commitment to seek out the most interesting and most inspiring speakers in the industry and let them share their knowledge and passion. Csanád holds an economics Master’s degree from Radboud University Nijmegen (the Netherlands) and undergraduate degrees from the Budapest Business School in Hungary and from Avans University (the Netherlands). Before joining Portfolio Group in Hungary, he worked for Bank Austria-Creditanstalt in Vienna. Besides his native Hungarian, he speaks German and English. Read More

Susanne Eickermann-Riepe FRICS

Chair, RICS European World Regional Board

Susanne Eickermann-Riepe FRICS is Chair of the RICS European World Regional Board and the Advisory Board at RICS Germany. RICS is a global professional body with over 134.000 members globally. She is also Chair of the Board of the ICG Institute which works on Standards, Values and Sustainability to improve good governance ...   in the real estate industry. She had been a partner at PwC for nearly 20 years and headed the German Real Estate Business, was part of the EMEA and Global Leadership team. She works on sustainability and innovations in the real estate industry with the IMPACT - format on the platform Builtword Leading Innovation. She also works as an independent senior executive advisor and holds several advisory and supervisory board mandates. Read More

Pavlos Gennimatas

Senior Managing Director, Hines

Living team, advising on a wide range of investment and development projects, including build-to-rent and alternative living subsectors. In his current role, he has strategically driven strong investment for the Living sector, which stands at a current GDV of €10+ billion. In his previous role at Hines, Pavlos worked ...   in the Investment Management team for a Pan-European separate account. Prior to Hines, Pavlos was the Investment and Development Director for a boutique residential developer in Greece. Pavlos holds a Master’s in Real Estate Development from Columbia University, an MBA from Cass Business School and an MEng in Civil Engineering from the University of Thessaly. He is also a member of RICS and the Co-Chair of the ULI Living Council. Read More

Greg Kane

Head of European Investment Research, PGIM Real Estate

Greg Kane is an executive director at PGIM Real Estate and head of European Investment Research. Based in London, Greg is responsible for leading the European Investment Research team in providing strategic guidance and support to transactions, portfolio and asset management functions of the regional and global businesses. ...   Greg is a member of the European Investment Committee. Greg joined the European Investment Research team in 2008. Prior to joining PGIM Real Estate, Greg was a research analyst at DTZ Research (now Cushman & Wakefield). Greg has a bachelor’s degree, with honours, in economics from the University of Bath and a master’s degree in economics from the University of Warwick. Read More

Nicholas Maclean

Acting President, RICS

Tamás Polster MRICS

Partner and Co-Founder, Urbanite Advisors

Tamás has 25+ years of experience in real estate consulting across EMEA and Asia. He led Cushman & Wakefield EMEA Consulting teams advising on new location and portfolio strategies besides major urban developments. He has been driving and publishing global research on Occupier trends. Tamas delivers projects in French, ...   English, Dutch, Hungarian and Spanish. Read More

Jonathan Ratnage MRICS

Director of European Asset Management, PineBridge Benson Elliot

Joël Scherrenberg

Chair of the Dutch Advisory Board, RICS

Anna Sinnott

Director of Planning Consultancy, Be First Regeneration Limited